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Friday, January 11, 2013

365 Creative Dresses

Tuesday January 8, 2013

Meet Jeanne Crockett of 365 Creative Dresses. As a result of reading "365:A Daily Creative Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!"by Noah Scalin, Jeanne decided to create and post a new dress every day. Most of the dresses are around 6" tall. In a life journey, Jeanne and her husband living in Paris for a year. Jeanne and I met through Paris breakfast and being a bit of a foodie I'm partial to her creations based on edibles but there are many other witty dresses made of silk and satin etc.﻿﻿

Dress #141 BonbelThe wax coating on the bonbel cheese is so tactile! I carved a small dress into the coating of one of the mini cheese. Next time I'll use a larger one!

Dress #246 Daily BreadThis is made from the remains of two different loaves of bread. I thought the pattern they made was quite nice. Day old bread from Boulanger Eric Kayser and a piece of ribbon.

Jeanne's beloved Eric Kayser in the 5th looking somewhat Hopperish...

I asked Jeanne for her favorite food?'Tan' foods was her response. A first for me though as a kid I only ate orange foods for a time. Kayser's baguette Monge is top of the tan list.

With a close followup from Rose Bakery's bread pudding. Jeanne said she gets her best dress ideas walking the islands in the morning (ile de Cite and Ile Saint Louis). Hmmm...

*Here's a handy trick Jeanne taught me on Tuesday.Add view/flipcard/ to the end of any Blogger home address and you'll get this terrific mosaic so you can see at a glance the posts someone has done.

Here's Jeanne's source of inspiration and it looks very tempting for someone starting a diary. The Kindle version looks like it could come in handy for me in Paris. Have you tried doing something for 365 days? Visit Jeanne's blog and please ask her not to stop at the end of 365 days coming up soon. This is too much fun to put an end to in my opinion.

haven't tried anything for 365 days but it felt like 365 days when hubby and i walked the length of the rue monge in search of boulangerie kayser. we started at the wrong end of it, but both the journey and the destination were truly well worth it. apricot financiers! miam!

I love those little dresses:) and I'll never stop saying... "and your aquarelle..:)"I am such a creature of habit there are so many things I do the same every day for 365 days..

I did start to write something on every page of my 2013 Mary Engelbreight calendar..not much.. even Costco..but that's another thing to add to my routine..:)Nothing exciting..Jacques loves bread pudding!:)You depicted Jeanne so well Carol..

How creative both you ladies are- your diary paintings are so fabulous.. I really enjoyed the introduction to Jeanne and her blog- I am astonished at her creativity, her endurance, and perserverance. And totally jealous that she is living for a year in Paris.

What a wonderful idea to create one thing a day. For us less creative, I'm thinking of modifying my daughters recent project. They have a 3 year old, and for one year, they jotted down a sentence a day. Sometimes, it was something he'd said, othertimes, about the events of their day. They folded up the papers and placed them in a jar. Then on New Year's Day they sat together and read them. I'm going to try to make a collage each week with 4 photos I've taken during the week. I'm excited to reflect back in one year.Best wishes to all who endeavor,Catherine